Ringo Starr will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month with a little help from a key friend: Paul McCartney. On Wednesday, the Hall announced that the âcute Beatleâ will ushering his old drummer into the rock Pantheon at the annual induction ceremony, set this year for April 18 in Cleveland.
The teenager who led the Guardian-backed campaign to end female genital mutilation (FGM) has been awarded a doctorate for her campaigning work. Fahma Mohamed, 19, who will be a doctor of law, is one of the youngest people in the UK to receive the honorary degree, which will be presented by Bristol University on Friday. Mohamed said she was ecstatic at being awarded the doctorate.
Charles Fefferman got his PhD in math at 20, and was a full time professor at Univ. of Chicago at 22. He won the Fields medal at 29. Noam Elkies did a PhD in math at 21, and was Harvard's youngest full professor ever at 26. Math has a lot of such characters.